BBC News | Syria crisis: Aid arrives in besieged towns BBC News Convoys carrying urgently-needed aid have reached four besieged areas of Syria, the UN and aid agencies said. Trucks reached rebel-held Muadhamiya and Madaya, near Damascus, and pro-government northern villages of Foah and Kefraya on ... Russia dismisses new call for a Syria no-fly zone Aid convoys head to besieged Syrian towns in early test Germany Revives Calls for No-Fly Zone in Northern Syria |
CNN | Advanced Russian spy plane now in Syria CNN Washington (CNN) For the first time, Russia has deployed to Syria what the U.S. believes is one of its most advanced reconnaissance and surveillance aircraft. The aircraft, known as the TU-214R, arrived at the Syrian airbase in Latakia in the last ... |
Al-Monitor | Turkey ups the ante in Syria Al-Monitor Turkey has raised the stakes in Syria by unleashing a campaign of heavy cross-border shelling against Russian-supported fighters from the People's Protection Units (YPG) that Ankara insists will continue despite international calls to desist. Ankara ... Turkey wants 'secure line' created 10km within Syria, including Azaz - deputy PM Hundreds of armed rebels cross from Turkey into Syria, says monitor Kurds' advance in Syria divides US and Turkey as Russia bombs |
CNN | Syria: In Aleppo, one man's story of fear, defiance and survival CNN Masri is a 25-year-old photographer in Aleppo who documents the fatalism, fear and sometimes the defiance of tens of thousands of civilians who remain in rebel-held areas of the city now almost encircled by Syrian government forces and their allies. |
CBS News | US-backed rebel groups in Syria reportedly fighting each other CBS News The prospects for a truce in Syria are dimming by the day as Russian warplanes keep up their brutal bombing in support of the Assad dictatorship. In a video that surfaced online, a little boy waved his hand from beneath the rubble of a shattered ... The Battle for Aleppo Shows That US Strategy in Syria Is in Tatters British policy against Isis in Syria is like 'dog returning to its own vomit', says former British ambassador Syrian army on the ISIS frontline: 'Russian intervention a blessing' |
UN Chief Warns Military Action Risks Derailing Syria Talks ABC News Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Wednesday that escalating military activity in Syria and threats of further use of force risk derailing efforts to reconvene peace talks and finding a political solution to the five-year-old war. Ban delivered the ... |
CNN | Assad casts doubt on Syria ceasefire prospects amid intensifying campaign CNN (CNN) Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has cast doubt on the prospects of a proposed ceasefire in his country's grinding civil war. He told a group in Damascus on Monday that "no one" was capable of bringing about the necessary circumstances for a ... Syria's Assad says proposed ceasefire 'difficult' Merkel calls for 'no-fly zone' in Syria |
Al-Arabiya | Military moves: Turkey and Saudi Arabia close ranks on Syria Al-Arabiya Ozgur Unluhisarcikli, director of the Ankara office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, says a Turkish land operation in Syria - with or without Saudi support - would lack political and military grounds, even if could be justified by ... Tension Escalation: 'Turkish and Saudi Boots in Syria May Trigger WW3' Iran's Jafari: Saudi dares not attack Syria Saudi Troops to Syria? Whoa. Bad Idea! |
The National Interest Online | The Russian Connection Between Syria and Ukraine The National Interest Online For the last fifty-two years, leaders from around the world have gathered in Munich for an annual review of world security problems. This year's discussion focused on the civil war in Syria. Not only is Syria a political and humanitarian crisis in the ... Syria conflict: Value of Munich meeting hangs in the balance |
Haaretz | Report: Israel Strikes Syrian Army Outposts Near Damascus Haaretz Israel on Wednesday evening struck military outposts in Syria near the capital Damascus, the Syrian observatory for human rights reported, according to Reuters. The report said that Syrian army outposts south of Damascus were hit by three Israeli rockets. Report: Israel attacks military outposts in Syria Israeli missile attack reported Syrian army outposts on the Damascus-Daraa road Report: Israeli missiles hit Syrian army outpost near Damascus |